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  • #1
    Seneca
    “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
    Seneca

  • #2
    Christina Rasmussen
    “I know you are afraid; you are afraid to get hurt again. But I also know that you are not meant to grieve forever.”
    Christina Rasmussen, Second Firsts: Live, Laugh, and Love Again

  • #3
    M. Scott Peck
    “Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.”
    M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

  • #4
    Vivekananda
    “The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”
    Vivekananda

  • #5
    Vivekananda
    “All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”
    Vivekananda , Letters of Swami Vivekananda, Year 1960
    tags: law, love

  • #6
    Vivekananda
    “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
    Vivekananda

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

  • #8
    Vivekananda
    “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you,
    none can make you spiritual.
    There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
    Vivekananda

  • #9
    Seneca
    “All cruelty springs from weakness.”
    Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

  • #10
    Seneca
    “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #11
    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  • #12
    Seneca
    “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
    Seneca

  • #13
    Seneca
    “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
    Seneca

  • #14
    Seneca
    “Timendi causa est nescire -
    Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
    Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Natural Questions

  • #15
    Seneca
    “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
    Seneca

  • #16
    Gloria Steinem
    “Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #17
    Gloria Steinem
    “so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #18
    Gloria Steinem
    “Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #19
    Gloria Steinem
    “Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #20
    Jenny  Lawson
    “Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.”
    Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

  • #21
    “Infinite patience produces immediate results.”
    Foundation for Inner Peace, A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume

  • #22
    Fernando Pessoa
    “I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #23
    Fernando Pessoa
    “If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.”
    Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa

  • #24
    Fernando Pessoa
    “To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #25
    Fernando Pessoa
    “Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #26
    Fernando Pessoa
    “We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.”
    Fernando Pessoa

  • #27
    Fernando Pessoa
    “But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #28
    Fernando Pessoa
    “Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #29
    Fernando Pessoa
    “I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.”
    Fernando Pessoa

  • #30
    Fernando Pessoa
    “I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet



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